1800s historical accounts and firearms exhibit ~ May 31

Shasta >> The Shasta State Historic Park is offering a special exhibit on 1800s historical accounts and firearms.

The exhibit will include historic accounts and firearms used on the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Fremont with Kit Carson expedition through Tehama and Shasta County, the Hensley fight with Yana Indians in 1844 near Cow Creek, and the emigrant migration to the west.

This exhibit will be presented at Shasta State Historic Park on Saturday, May 31, at 2 p.m.

This presentation will be offered by Lee Dummel, a member of the Oregon California Trails Association. Trails West, Indian War Historian of the 1800s, and a collector and exhibitor of 1800s firearms.

This fundraiser has limited seating and all proceeds will benefit the Town of Shasta Interpretive Association.

Tickets are $5 per person.

For more information, please call the Courthouse Museum at (530) 243-8194.

Shasta State Historic Park and the Courthouse Museum are located four miles west Of Redding on State Route 299W in the town of Shasta.